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Person of the Week A LIBRARY CARD OPENS WORLDS From the Brooklyn Public Library, audacious busboy Abraham Abdallah cybertapped into bank and brokerage accounts of Oprah Winfrey, George Lucas and others, stealing untold amounts. Police said Abdallah accumulated 20,000 fake credit cards...
...life than learn about George Washington. "At first it was like a riot every day. I had to call the dean and security just to get the class to calm down," says Gary Huddleston, a former lawyer from Houston who teaches science at a high school in Brooklyn. "I had no idea how demanding it would be." Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers, says new teachers should have about a year of classroom training with a mentor...
These are definitely not the adjectives most parents today would use to describe the formal dance classes they attended as children. But they are the very words Grade 4 students at P.S. 127 in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, N.Y., used last month to describe the first ballroom-dance class held at their school. In less than 45 minutes, these 9- and 10-year-olds had learned to dance the merengue, the first of 10 dances they would attempt in a 20-class session. Their dance teacher, Pierre Dulaine, is the artistic director of American Ballroom Theater, a dance...
...semester. Clients of his $185 courses--in which toddlers listen to, dance to and accompany songs with shakers, sticks and tambourines--include some high-profile artists like members of the bands Phish and Sonic Youth. Just last year Weinstone was duping homemade tapes of his songs out of his Brooklyn apartment (sales last year: 1,000). This year he has mass-produced his 160 songs on CDs, and through grass-roots sources--classes, a new website www.musicforaardvarks.com and local merchants who have asked to sell the album in their stores--he has sold some 7,000 in just three months...
...types of doulas are available through various organizations (see box), though there is some debate among the doulas themselves over the need for certification. "Some people feel very strongly that being certified isn't what makes you a good doula," says Lijah Friedman, a DONA-certified doula based in Brooklyn, N.Y. "It's creating a political and selective situation in the doula world." Most doulas think that while training and certification don't guarantee quality services, the knowledge can't hurt. Says Guralnick: "Your heart and hands are the most important. If someone's not certified, they're not necessarily...